Coming up for a breather

Royal Albatross, Yellow-eyed Penguin, Fur Seals

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January 8th 2008
The trip to Dunedin on the east coast was a long one. It is so funny how the AA travel times differ from our time. It told me we would be traveling 285 kilometers and it would take 4.5 hours. It may have been 285 km but we took a wee bit longer to get there, aye. We left early and stopped in Arrowtown just outside of Queenstown for some breakfast. This was the place Bill Gates and family chos ... read more

Oceania » New Zealand » South Island » Dunedin

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The Polynesian Maori reached New Zealand in about A.D. 800. In 1840, their chieftains entered into a compact with Britain, the Treaty of Waitangi, in which they ceded sovereignty to Queen Victoria while retaining territorial rights. In that same year... ... read more